RE: Falling sunvisors

[Kneale Brownson <knotnook@traverse.com>]

I'll bet a watchmaker/repair person could supply you with a duplicate of
your spring clip.

Kneale Brownson


At 10:15 AM 9/3/99 -0700, Buchholz, Steven wrote:
>> Someone wrote in yesterday about their sunvisors falling down all the
>> time. Was this ever resolved? I have the same problem on mine. It
>> appears that the bracket that screws that attaches the sunvisor to the
>> roof is cracked (because its plastic of course). The visors 
>> have lighted
>> vanity mirrors in them so naturally theres going to be some 
>> wiring going
>> through them. Is there a SIMPLE way to replace that plastic bracket
>> without dismantling/dismembering the visor???
>
>... this is a subject that has been discussed ... but it has been some time.
>Since it seems as though noone else has responded yet, let me take a shot at
>it.  
>
>This problem is a common one for the visors in the type 44 ... I had it
>develop on my '88 5kCSQ Avant a few years back.  Using Buchholz' law (which
>reads "Once its broken I'm not going to break it any more trying to fix it")
>I disassembled the one for the driver's side.  What I found is that the pin
>that is mounted to the car has a couple of flat spots in it, and there is a
>spring steel clip in the visor that is supposed to index on the flats for
>the fully extended or fully retracted position.  The clip breaks, making the
>visor so that it will not stay in any position ... other than perhaps
>vertically downward ...
>
>What I did with some success was to put a nut & screw with a couple of large
>diameter washers through the area where the clip is and pinch it all
>together.  This is not the most aesthetically pleasing solution however.  
>
>I am of the opinion that if you could fabricate some replacement clips, with
>some careful surgery one could rebuild the visors in a way where it would be
>difficult to see the repair.  Given how much these things go for even at the
>wrecking yards it might not be a bad solution to pursue ...
>
>HTH!
>Steve Buchholz
>San Jose, CA (USA)
>
>... with bigger problems than falling visors on the car right now ... :(